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Use caseBest for: Apartment communities, resident-led marketplaces, and hyperlocal seller networks.

Neighbors Buy from Neighbors

Hyperlocal marketplace for society-level sellers with trusted discovery and fast delivery.

Verified seller onboardingCommunity-first product discoveryFast local delivery flows
Start a Neighborhood Marketplace

Self-serve start · Expert help for guided migrations

What operators see

8%

Typical take rate

2 hrs

Same-gate delivery

0

Data entry per seller

100%

Local by construction

How it connects

The loop this runs on

Supply, platform, demand, and fulfilment — and who does what between them.

  1. 01

    Supply

    Society seller

    Home baker, boutique, hobbyist

  2. 02

    Platform

    Octamart

    Onboarding, catalog, stock

  3. 03

    Demand

    Arounds

    Trusted neighbour discovery

  4. 04

    Fulfilment

    Local runner

    Same-day, inside the gate

    Typical: Under 2 hrs

  5. 05

    Customer

    Neighbours

    Buy from people they know

The change

What actually changes when you run this on Octamart

Local sellers struggle with discovery inside neighborhoods.

Trust and verification are hard in ad-hoc commerce.

Logistics is the biggest barrier to repeat purchases.

Switch between “Today” and “On Octamart” to compare

Your numbers

Run the model on your own business

What a marketplace inside your community earns

Model the take-rate on the sellers you can realistically activate.

60

Residents actually listing, not just signed up

8
₹450

Monthly marketplace GMV

₹9.35 L

Sellers × orders × value × 4.33

Your commission at 8%

₹74,822

The operator's revenue line

Earned per seller per month

₹15,588

What keeps sellers on the platform

A model, not a promise. Assumes an active seller transacts weekly and that the operator charges a flat marketplace commission.

How it runs

From one WhatsApp group to a real marketplace

How a society goes live without an operations team.

01 / 05

Week 1

Sellers onboard themselves

Self-serve vendor signup with KYC hooks. You approve, you don't data-enter.

60

sellers live

  1. Week 1
  2. Week 2
  3. Week 3
  4. Week 4
  5. Month 2
  1. Week 1

    Sellers onboard themselves

    Self-serve vendor signup with KYC hooks. You approve, you don't data-enter.

  2. Week 2

    One catalog, scoped to your gate

    Every listing is local by construction. Stock is real-time, so nothing sells that isn't there.

  3. Week 3

    Neighbours find neighbours

    Arounds surfaces the catalog to people already inside the community — trust is the default, not a marketing spend.

  4. Week 4

    Delivery is a walk, not a route

    Pickup and drop workflows with SLA tracking, for distances measured in buildings.

  5. Month 2

    Repeat behaviour compounds

    The same buyers return to the same sellers. Your commission line becomes predictable.

Platform

The parts of Octamart this uses

Everything below ships as part of the platform — nothing here is a custom build.

Area 01

Seller Onboarding

    • Vendor onboarding & KYC hooks
    • Role-based access control
    • Multi-tenant communities

Area 02

Catalog + Inventory

    • Local catalog per community
    • Real-time stock
    • Low stock alerts

Area 03

Delivery

    • Hyperlocal delivery orchestration
    • Pickup/drop workflows
    • SLA tracking

Questions

What operators ask first

You do. Communities are multi-tenant: the catalog, the buyers, and the order history belong to your marketplace, not to individual sellers.

Vendor onboarding runs through approval with KYC hooks, and role-based access controls who can publish.

Yes. Each community gets its own scoped catalog and delivery rules under one operator account.

Orders carry a full lifecycle with status workflows, so cancellations and refunds follow a defined path rather than a chat thread.

No — they list into the community catalog. Sellers who outgrow that can graduate to their own Octamart storefront later.

Get started

Start with one community, one week

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